"Chronicle" has gifted Josh Trank with a very useful opportunity for learning his way around the superhero genre. Useful, we say, because rumor has it that the young filmmaker is Fox's lead choice to direct their upcoming "Fantastic Four" reboot. Ask Trank himself about the possibility, however, and you'll get a very different -- and very vague -- answer.
"I really have nothing to say about ['Fantastic Four'] because I know as much about this as everyone else," Trank told MTV News' Kara Warner during a recent interview for "Chronicle," out in theaters this Friday (February 3). "I'm just working on my own original stuff right now."
Even if "Fantastic Four" isn't something Trank can talk about (yet), the filmmaker admitted that he's long been intrigued by the superhero scene.
"I'm a big fan of lots of genre movies and of comic books," he said. "'Chronicle' was a real outlet for those influences, without being any kind of homage or trying to recreate any other character and repurpose them in another story. I was really happy for that to be that."
For now, whether or not Trank gets "Fantastic" for his next movie, the director said he'd like his next project to have the same sensibilities as "Chronicle": a story with drama at its heart, and a high concept built around that.
"I've got some ideas and I just want to keep doing some interesting, cool things," he said of his future plans. "Whether they're huge in scope or small in scale, I'm definitely interested in making movies that are dramas at their core but with an element of fantasy and science fiction."
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